Vemp thanks! I intentionally skipped all escorts as I don’t think they’ll be realistic for Classic launch but you could save time overall by doing those if they’re up. I also “learned” of like 3 rare elites that spawn within my route which twice costed me a death. They’re not extremely noticeable when speedrunning and trying to plow through shit as quickly as possible. You also don’t really encounter them often on private servers because of the respawn time. Seems within reach to hit times like the ones posted for alliance runs on repack.
E: Leaderboards udpated.
Recently I've been leveling rogues to 10 on Northdale for both fun relaxing times and to narrow down what race I want to pick. As I hit 10 I remembered this thread, and did a /played to see. I was at just about 4 hours and I thought that minus the time spent afk, a few deaths, and that I have absolutely no planned route it was okay. But god daaaamn looking at Kup's rogue time I realize something is very very far off.
Gonna watch the vids posted and learn from the master! I was also not buying weapons from vendors as I wated to test swords at 10, and was saving for that. But looking at some of the footage I see that I'm struggling a lot more than necessary because of low damage output. Especially vs the damn trolls at Echo isles.
Really impressive times you guys! Inspiring stuff
Finally decided to get off my ass to start a new run and managed a 1:51 to 10. I should be able to post my time to 20 later today. Unless of course something tilts me along the way and I reset.
This is on the Lightshope repack from Brotalnia.
Also, I did my routing on the repack but this is the first time I'm doing a legit run. I never knew how sick it is to play with 0ms... I'm afraid I'm going to spoil myself.
Cheers
Massivechonk nice time! Will get you added soon.
I had another stab at 1-10, this time on a priest.
It started well but towards the end, it fell to pieces. Lots of deaths and in some really inconvenient places.
Consequently, only 2:10:39.
Still, it's all practice and it gave me a chance to see if I could stomach a female dwarf :D
Still, it's all practice and it gave me a chance to see if I could stomach a female dwarf :D
How did you like the casting animations? Thinking about rolling a female dwarf as well, they are so rare!
Level 20. Repack with rested turned off.
Cheers
First of all, this thread is awesome and an excellent resource, and it's great to see a community forming around speedrunning. Hopefully this gets popular enough to get its own subforum.
I played Druid and Warrior back in actual Vanilla on US-Illidan, and have leveled a second warrior in TBC and a Shaman on private servers, as well as experimented with other classes at lower levels. I've settled on Warlock for a new challenge. It's a bit disappointing to see such a lack of representation of Warlocks in speedruns though, given their potential.
Here's my 3rd leveling attempt on a local repack. This is not optimized for 1-10, but rather 1-20. I didn't modify any behaviors to reach 10 faster than I would have if my goal was to go farther. I believe this could be sub 1h40m by changing a few things to prioritize hitting level 10, or could shave 5-10 mins in optimizations. But I was pretty happy with this time for a 3rd attempt. I'll push through to 20 as I have time.
Nice times from everyone! Particularly impressed with the sub 7:45 level 20 Horde Hunter, well done Massivechonk. Would love to hear about your route!
Promise to get everything updated as soon as I can.
Decided to do my first speedrunning attempt last night. Hit 10 rogue on Northdale (without frontstabbing) at 2h 25m:
I had a fair bit of competition for mobs, as it seems to be quite busy these days. Also messed up a few times, like ending up in sen'jin cemetery trying to bloodport to razor hill - then hearthstoning to valley of trials as I had forgot to set a new home.
Was fun! Will be doing more of these.
1-10 in 1h 35m 38s on Lights Hope Repack as a Paladin.
Still made a couple of mistakes, could probably trim a few extra minutes off it, but it was pretty close to optimal (for that route at any rate). Got a video uploaded, but it's still processing so it's not HD yet. When it's finished processing I'll edit this post to link it.
EDIT: here's the video.
Cool stuff Vemp! Really impressive time.
What is that swingtimer and UI?
Thanks kvmphvre ! The UI is SyncedUI which is an addon pack with customizations of pfUI and other addons, and I've made some tweaks of my own (updated the versions of some of the addons, added Questie). The swing timer is SP_SwingTimer but honestly Attack Bar timer is better because it can show enemy swing timers too. I'm considering swapping to that one, even though the SP_SwingTimer can be skinned to match my UI.
Nice times from everyone! Particularly impressed with the sub 7:45 level 20 Horde Hunter, well done @Massivechonk. Would love to hear about your route!
Promise to get everything updated as soon as I can.
Thank you.
What would you like to know?
How did you like the casting animations? Thinking about rolling a female dwarf as well, they are so rare!
I picked the hairstyle with the two long pony tails just so I could watch them move in the wind while she casts :evil:
I'm just doing another run but at level 9, it's fallen apart. It was at least ten minutes faster than my best and then I made a stupid mistake. Hey ho!